Brezhnev Doctrine

What does Brezhnev Doctrine mean in American Law?

The definition of Brezhnev Doctrine in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is:

A doctrine announced in 1968 by Leonid Brezhnev, then First Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, after crushing by armed invasion a Czechoslovak government which had seemed to be relaxing totalitarian control over the people, to the effect that any time a previously Communist government seemed to be on the verge of transformation to something else, the “Socialist community [as] a whole” had the right to interfere with force to stop it. The doctrine has most recently (1980) been used (though not avowedly) in Afghanistan.

Notion of Brezhnev Doctrine

The meaning of Brezhnev Doctrine may be as follows: reinforced the right of the Soviets to ntervene where Moscow deemed socialism was threatened by ‘counter-revolutionary forces’